My how she has grown!

Emmy has changed so much in the past few weeks that each day I am more and more amazed. She has very distinct likes and dislikes and is not afraid to express them very clearly. I think her new favorite word these days is "no", but she does say it with a very cute voice so it makes it much better to hear ALL DAY LONG. The other day I asked her if she knew how to even say yes and she looked a me with a little attitude and said "YA", like DUH MOM!

She is turning more and more into a little girl and isn't such a baby anymore. Even though she does like to crawl around on the floor sometimes and says baby, baby, because she knows only babies crawl. She has the funniest personality and is so darn cute I can't even stand it. She is very determined, sassy and sweet, all at the same time.

She has been repeating a lot of words these days. The other day I said to Andy, Hey, Babe, can you get me a tissue and I hear to the left of me this little voice say, babe. I thought as long as these were the only words she is repeating (if you know what I mean) we were off to a good start. As fate would have it, before I even had to chance to post this blog, she added a new word to her repertoire. This morning after Papa dropped coffee on the floor and said S**T, she didn't hesitate even a second before saying it right back. Oh boy, we are in trouble!

When I decided to teach her sign language I really just thought it would be for a few words like eat and more so I knew when she was hungry. One day I decided to teach her please and thank you just because she was constantly whining at things and I figured what could be the downside. That was months ago so at the time I didn't really have high expectations for it to be continued. Well it brings me such joy these days when she says and signs (which she does together these days) please and thank you without even being asked. It's certainly not every time, but just the pure fact that she does it at all brings me such a sense of pride in my little lady.